Comments: This course will be offered in summer session A at Arizona State University, June 1 until July 2, 2010. The time is 9-12 Monday through Friday. M and T are on-line days, W, Th, F are in class days. This will be offered on the Tempe campus.

Description: Interactive Performance Design Seminar. This course will examine issues surrounding the integration of live performance/installation and current media technology by providing hands-on experience in developing frameworks for creating integrated media works. Overview and critical analysis of existing works will accompany the development of skills with hardware and software used in integrating live performance and current media technology.

More Information:This is a workshop for users of Live who want to dig deeper into Max for Live. The ideal participant is comfortable with Live but has little or no experience with Max or M4L. Max/MSP/Jitter is a graphical programming environment for music, audio and multimedia that has been used worldwide for over fifteen years by performers, composers, artists, teachers, and students.

After completing this course, students will be able to make new M4L devices that process sound and midi in response to real-time control and/or simple algorithmic processes. Graduates of this course will also have the skills to read and understand larger M4L devises and the foundation for exploring more advanced features cir tutorials, help patches and online documentation.

Comments: This is a private lesson currently. A course in the composition course sequence is in the proposal stage. In order to enroll in these classes, students must be enrolled at Columbia College Chicago and must have met the prerequisites.

Address: 1006 S. Michigan Ave. and 1014 S. Michigan Ave.

North Central College

Enrollment Contact: Jonathon Kirk, jkirk@noctrl.edu

Class: MUS 490; Computers and Music

Software Taught: Max5; Max/MSP/Jitter, Ableton Live, Logic, Audacity

Platform: Max

Course Frequency: Quarterly

Indiana

Ball State University, School of Music

Software Taught: Pluggo, Max/MSP

Contact: kkothman@bsu.edu

Courses Offered: Computer Music II and III, Advanced Topics in Computer Music

Course Description: The creation of interactive new media art and communication through the live manipulation of video and audio. Students learn to create software in MAX/MSP and Jitter. Includes a focus on the history of interactivity in art and communication as well as in contemporary practice.

Comments: Peabody Computer Music Department is a leading computer music facility for undergraduate, masters and doctoral level music/technology study. Our preparatory department serves Baltimore area community members. Our focus is using technology for composition, performance and music-related research.

Comments: For complete information visit the class website: http://www.jeweltone16.org/SoundWithMaxMSP This intensive course is for beginners in MaxMSP who want to create sound works. Using a step-by-step approach, you will learn how to build Max patches [self-contained programs] from the ground up. In this half-semester course you will learn to manipulate MIDI sounds in your computer via Max, how to create digital synthesized sound within MaxMSP and how to build a basic sampler. Sound concepts will be made understandable and one-on-one help will be provided throughout the course. Classes are posted once weekly for this online course, but do not meet in real-time, allowing some flexibility for individual schedules. 1.5 college credits. .

Address: Massachusetts College of Art and Design

621 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

(617) 879-7000

Tufts University, Music / Mechanical Engineering

Software Taught: Max/MSP, Reason, OSCulator

Enrollment Contact: Paul Lehrman paul.lehrman@tufts.edu

Course Offered: Electronic Musical Instrument Design (EMID)

Platform: Mac

Frequency: Annually

Instructor: Paul D. Lehrman, PhD

Comments: Visit our website at http://tuftsemid.com to see student projects from the last several years.

More Information:We may be offering some 'focused' summer sessions on Max/MSP/Jitter, both in NYC and abroad.

Lehman College CUNY, Music Department

Software Taught: Max/MSP

Contact: Timothy.Polashek@lehman.cuny.edu

Courses Offered: Electronic Music I, Electronic Music II, Advanced Electronic Music, Special Topics in Music Theory

Instructor: Prof. Timothy Polashek

More Information:Electronic Music Center

Address: Lehman Center for the Performing Arts

250 Bedford Park Boulevard West

Bronx, NY 10468

(718) 960-8833

LEMURplex

Software Taught: Max/MSP/Jitter/Cyclops

Contact: human@lemurbots.org

Courses Offered: LEMURplex is a new learning center, gallery and performance space, and the home of LEMUR (League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots). We will be teaching a large variety of classes in art and technology on a rotating basis.

Instructors: A number of NYC's best art and technology instructors.

More Information:lemurbots.org

Address: 461 3rd Ave

Brooklyn, NY 11215

Manhattanville College, Music Department

Software Taught: Max/MSP

Contact: kiddeg@mville.edu

Courses Offered: Electronic Music Composition I and II, Introduction to Music Technology

More Information:See http://www.bc-ccm.org for listing of what classes are offered each semester. More classes under development.

Ohio

Ohio University, School of Music

Software Taught: Pluggo, Max/MSP

Contact: phillipm@ohio.edu

Courses Offered: Music 178: Computer Skills for Musicians (some Max/MSP), Music 413/513 History and Practice of Electronic Music (some Max/MSP), Music 415/515: Introduction to Computers & Music (mostly Max/MSP)

Instructor: Mark Phillips

Oberlin College Conservatory of Music

Software Taught: Pluggo, M, Max/MSP/Jitter

Contact: gary.nelson@oberlin.edu

Courses Offered: Summer Workshop in Electronic and Computer Music (WECM)

More Information:This course is primarily designed for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Music (Music and Technology) degree. However, students from other backgrounds are welcome to enroll. The entire semester is spent learning to program Max/MSP.

Washington

The Evergreen State College

Course Offered: Numbers

Software Taught: Max/MSP/Jitter

Platform: Mac

Frequency: Quarterly

Instructor: Ben Kamen

Cost: see Evergreen State College admissions

Comments: A three quarter sequence exploring the application of music theory, synthesis techniques, sampling, video and interactivity using Max/MSP/Jitter.